New Covenant = New Beginnings
The Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. ~ Jeremiah 31:31 (CEB)
You have come….. to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant. ~Hebrews 12:22a,24a
KEY IDEA:
Jesus initiates new beginnings with him.
PRAYER:
Lord God, thank you for sticking with us even when we do not stick with you. Forgive my lack of faithfulness to you and your ways. Help me to more fully trust in the new covenant beginnings. I'm going stick close to Jesus. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
